"The Smalls Street Sounds" Interviews Steve Elkins

On December 14th 2009, The Smalls launched Street Sounds, a new interactive online project aiming to create a sort of sonic landscape of the United States by overlaying local sound snippets on Google Maps. This sonic map charts the country as heard and recorded by its citizens: a tropical Florida thunderstorm, subway performers on New York City's 6 train headed uptown, morning birds in Wyoming, or a walk though San Francisco's Chinatown (to name a few examples).

In May 2010, The Smalls held their first film competition in which filmmakers submitted original films containing audio downloaded from the sonic map. Steve Elkins served as a judge for the competition, alongside Rolling Stone Magazine Design Director Owen Fegan, Sundance Channel Director of Branded Entertainment Monique Frumberg, A&E VP of On-Air Promotions Valerie Albanese, Partizan Director Nima Nourizadeh, and Founder of The Warren Report and Head of Development for LOCKSPRING PICTURES Warren Etheredge.